Five-Millimetre Trocar Site Herniation as a Late Complication After Six Years Following Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Nine-year-old Boy

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Hasan Özkan Gezer Semire Serin Ezer

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Hasan Özkan Gezer
Departments of Pediatric Surgery, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

A B S T R A C T

Trocar site hernia (TSH) is a type of incisional hernia occurring at the trocar sites after minimal invasive surgeries, most often in adult patients with non-sutured trocar sites. This is a case report of a 5 mm trocar site omental herniation six years after laparoscopic appendectomy in a nine-year-old boy to emphasize that incisions should be closed using fascial and cutaneous sutures, regardless of trocar size and localization, to prevent TSH. We conducted a brief review of the literature on this topic.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 08, Oct 2019
Accepted: Fri 25, Oct 2019
Published: Thu 31, Oct 2019

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© 2023 Hasan Özkan Gezer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.05.13